{"id":24087,"date":"2014-07-14T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=24087"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:04:42","slug":"weekend-sewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/weekend-sewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Sewing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weekend felt short and I think part of that was because I had to work on Friday. Granted I only worked half a day, but it still cut into my free time. I shouldn’t complain since most people have to work all day every Friday. Since I don’t normally work that schedule, I feel I can indulge in a little complaining once in awhile.<\/p>\n

Saturday, as I will talk about in another post, was the CQFA meeting. It was packed and busy. A few of us stayed for sewing afterwards. Stay tuned for more on that.<\/p>\n

I came home, having declined to join DH for some more Political Wifery, and worked on the blog and some tasks related to the upcoming CQFA show. In general, though, I felt out of sorts. It translated into me not sleeping very well and the monkeys that sometimes chatter in my mind being quite active and irritating.<\/p>\n

I woke up late, still feeling a little out of sorts, so didn’t get as early a start to my sewing as I would have liked, but I can’t beat myself up all the time, so I ate breakfast and just got to it.<\/p>\n

\"Four<\/a>
Four Patches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, I made some Four Patches for a friend who is doing a Lovey for someone going through a hard time. I will put those in the mail today.<\/p>\n

I used the fabrics that I used for the Flower Sugar Hexagon<\/a> quilt, because they are bright and cheerful and I don’t plan, right now, to use them for anything else.\u00a0 I show some pictures of the finished project when I get them.<\/p>\n

\"Fish<\/a>
Fish postcard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After those, I decided to put the finishing touches on the Fish Postcard and send that along as a little thank you gift for all the work my friend is gong through to get the quilt out. I only had to zig zag around the edges, so that didn’t take very long. I’ll, maybe, do a blog post on the post card later.<\/p>\n

Next, I realized that the BAMQG meeting is next week and I promised to do an orphan block project. I decided to make a lanyard. I used the Two Peas in a Pod<\/a> tutorial with some modifications. I’ll probably write another post about what I did to change the lanyard pattern above.<\/p>\n

\"Orphan<\/a>
Orphan Block Lanyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the lanyard, I felt like I had completed all of my obligations and could get on with some of my projects, but wasn’t sure on which project to work.<\/p>\n

Eventually I decided to quilt on See to try and get that done. I quilted away for about 4 hours on and off and got another quarter of the quilting done. I am within shouting distance of having this project done, though I do need to face it and put a sleeve and label on it. After mostly not working on it since 2003, the progress I have made recently feels phenomenal.<\/p>\n

I had a little bit of a weird food weekend as well. I bought a Milka Hazelnut chocolate bar a few weeks ago and went on a little binge. I just finally dedicated the calories to eating the whole thing over the course of a couple of days.<\/p>\n

Done<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n